Charlie's mother has an accent of dubious providence, it must be said.

I believe Gotham is nuanced, if only because a show that demonstrates that much discursive information must be nuanced through thanks to the sheer amount of variety it showcases.

I think you're being reductive. Montoya's a lesbian, but she's never been demonstrated to be a sex object — the kiss between Montoya and Barbara's shot from far back in a way that's deliberately not exploitative.

Actually, it's pretty easy to: the show features three strong women of colour that run the moral gambit — misguided moral crusader Montoya, pragmatic/diplomatic Essen, and villainous Fish Mooney. If that's not a representation of third wave feminism, I don't know what is.

I loved Wentworth Miller as Cold, but I wish they'd given him some stronger scenes to play. There was some really programattic writing that went into a lot of his solo scenes, which his performance elevated but didn't solve.

She had one puff in one scene, jesus. The show might not have used Barabara very well, but she's a) not a lesbian and b) not had her queerness played up as sexual exploitation.

The only actor I recognise is Joan Chen. I'm kinda hyped though.

Mhmm. Salty, yet satisfying.

Given the number of very strong actors out there, I find this to be a very strange argument, and not a particularly believable one.

There's a real tragic/horror element to this show, that's been rearing its head for the last few weeks. This is a setting that doesn't yet have a Joker; whose Ivy is barely a twinkling of a concept in the mind of a child. But it's going to be, inevitably, and we can see the signs of that. The city's a breeding ground…

If it was just as easy as doing in the Don, I imagine Falcone would be long gone. Fish Mooney's consolidating power, and Maroni's acquiring the man's assets, so there's clearly more going on than just taking the man out.

Comes from money, is my guess. (She's a Kane, right? They're a rich Gotham family). They've not explained it though.

So now this is a show where a jacked-up punk can be running down the street, giggling like an idiot, with an ATM sling over his shoulder in one scene… and then later feature a tense stand-off where a cop has to tell a mobster exactly what he wants to hear, lest a snitch gets his face sliced off in a restaurant…

But Jim Gordon needs to lose the super model wife and the 15 million dollar apartment.

She's got "work camps" staffed by prisoners. I think that euphemism speaks for itself.

I imagine casting her daughter in a recurring role is actually a big honey trap — instead of a trailer, Grace Gummer actually spends all her off-screen time locked in an iron box, surviving only on lipstick and old celluloid.

He's pretty much a Roald Dahl character, so I don't mind.

You're saying that American Horror Story doesn't have false jeopardy, and this show does?

She looked dead to me, but if she's not, that'd be pretty fun.

He's not really working for me, but the level of plastic surgery he's got going on makes me consistently uncomfortable in a way that's unintentionally effective.